This week's theme for my personal photography project was indeed a true challenge; backlighting. Backlighting is when the main source of light in an image is behind the subject, so the camera faces the light. This can be tricky for a number of reasons; it can be difficult to achieve focus as the camera is a bit "blinded by the light" (as well as the photographer!) because cameras focus on points of contrast and backlit images are typically low contrast by nature and you have to embrace the sun flare and consider it in the overall composition of your image.
I elected to not use a flash fill for these images to really force myself to work with the backlight because that's part of what this project is all about; getting me out of my comfort zone, trying new techniques and improving on those that I regularly use. So I headed out with my favorite model to work on some backlit images at both sunrise and sunset.
Sunrise
Sunset
One of my favorite backlit images of all time...
